Games

You are traveling in the late Middle Ages and living through a rather emotional drama with Amicia and Hugo. There is no open world here,…

Atmospheric horror with the titular writer. Horror isn’t really my thing, but it’s about books and head stuff, so I’ll do it. Unfortunately, there’s no…

Atomic Heart is set in an alternate 1950s Soviet Union filled with advanced robotics and biotechnology. You control special agent P-3 as he investigates a…

Arkham Knight features the usual ‘superhero versus supervillain’ storyline. Conveniently, the population of the metropolis of Gotham City is evacuated right at the start, so…

The Battlefield series takes us to the battlefields of the world. Basically, the past 13 parts have covered every possible and impossible military conflict in…

Why do people climb mountains? Because they are there. The mountain is calling. A mountain is also synonymous with seemingly insurmountable obstacles in life –…

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based computer role-playing game with real-time elements. As a player, you find yourself in a surreal Belle Époque setting,…

Here, everything is essentially limited to the interior of a single, rather dull administrative building in which a surreal story unfolds. You can exert some…

We accompany the protagonist V through the megalopolis Night City. Enables almost classic street photography in a rather dystopian virtual city of the future. Great…

Two years after a global pandemic, you steer biker Deacon St. John on a motorcycle through a post-apocalyptic northern USA, modeled on Oregon, and have…

As the rather bulky character Sam Porter Bridges, the player moves in Part one through a surreal post-apocalyptic USA, and Mexico and Australia in Part…

To be an astronaut on the moon, but without photomode.

Detroit: Become Human explores the question of what it means to be human. The game transports us to Detroit in the year 2038, where highly…

Fallout is an outdated computer game series, which has now even been given a very good TV series spin-off. There’s another post-apocalypse - as the…

A fictional location with a Cuban flair, which is of course full of clichés and photographic opportunities. As it is a first-person shooter, it is…

Forza Horizon is a classic car racing game. It celebrates cars and the people who drive them in a rather frenetic way. There are tons…

Ghost of Yotei

Here, in the year 1274, you roam the Japanese island of Tsushima as a samurai warrior. A little masterpiece in almost every respect. There is…

Japan - is a kind of place of longing for me that I would love to visit in real life. Ghostwire Tokyo offers me the…

In Part 5 you are an aspiring gangster in the fictional city of Los Santos, which is based on Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the photo mode…

I really liked the movies because they brought a breath of fresh air to the sci-fi movie genre. Reason enough to travel to this world.

Hell is Us takes us to the fictional, war-torn country of Hadea, where you play as soldier Rémi, searching for answers about your past amid…

This takes place in the head of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia, symbolized and represented by Nordic mythology. I keep these works in black and…

There is a huge, futuristic open world to discover here. Photomode available.

In Indika, you play as a Russian Orthodox nun in 19th-century Russia. The interactive story explores themes such as faith, religious hypocrisy and psychological extremes…

Here you can steer the main character Delsin Rowe through Seattle and do superhero things. Whether you become a good guy or a bad guy…

This is a very leisurely surreal first-person psychological thriller. Heavily inspired by 1984, it is set in a dystopian East Germany in the 1980s. As…

Kena stands out from the other titles I have photographed in so far. Visually, it is a beautiful animated film. It’s about the souls of…

The year is 1403, and we are traveling as Henry of Skalitz in the Kingdom of Bohemia, seeking revenge for the murder of our parents…

I’ve only heard about the series second-hand so far, but as it involves photography, I’ll obviously have to check it out. Unfortunately, there’s no dedicated…

Lost Records is a nostalgic, melancholic, narrative adventure that combines a coming-of-age story with elements of mystery. The protagonist, Swann, constantly carries a camcorder with…

The game to the movie, if you will. As is so often the case, there is a post-apocalypse. Anyone who knows the movies knows the…

This is the prequel to the now four-part Mafia series, set in Sicily in the early 1900s. It sheds light on the origins of the…

This is simply a science fiction classic. That’s why it belongs on this list.

First-person shooter from Ukrainian developer studio, set in the fictional, post-apocalyptic Metro 2033 universe by Russian author Dmitry Alexeyevich Glukhovsky. The photo mode goes like…

A whole universe of generatively created worlds that only emerge and manifest themselves when they are discovered for the first time. Here, the numerous players…

This is a fairly short minimalistic psychological horror game. You’re trapped on a train endlessly travelling, and must keep an eye out for anomalies to…

POOLS is an exploration and walking simulator heavily inspired by the internet phenomena Liminal Spaces and Backrooms. You explore a vast, surreal and seemingly endless…

Plays on a space station with nasty aliens. There is no photo mode.

Hi, I’m Arthur Morgan. The year is 1899 and I’m out in the Wild, Wild West with the Van der Linde Gang, to survive! Atmospherical,…

The ninth part in the series is reminiscent of previous titles. Players take turns playing two characters: good old Leon S. Kennedy, who is responsible…

The protagonist is stuck in an endless loop on an alien world. First-class audio-visually, but rougelike - which means you have to fight hard for…

This is a timeless masterpiece by Fumito Ueda and his team from 2005, which will hopefully get a refresh in every generation. A photo mode…

Sifu is a classic Beat Em Up, the story is as thin as in the usual kung fu movies, but that doesn’t matter, because the…

This is the 2024 remake of the 2001 classic, so it’s high time I caught up with it - horror, but I have to get…

Welcome to virtual New York City. Imagine you live in the same city as Spiderman. How would you as a normal person perceive life in…

Action adventure with lots of sneaky interludes. Does everything well that Disney fails to do. There’s a really good Star Wars feeling here. A bit…

A role-playing game that - similar to No Mans Sky - is set in a fictional future and lets the player travel through a whole…

For a change, you are a cat in a cyberpunk underground city inhabited by robots. Surprisingly, the title is always at its strongest when you…

Surfing chillingly over sand dunes on a mixture of a surfboard and a sword, transforming dead deserts into living seas—I’ve always wanted to do that.…

The game Tchia is also a very special one, in short: it’s just love. Firstly, the beautifully designed world inspired by New Caledonia and its…

The game combines survival, base building and role-playing elements with a profound narrative about identity and the consequences of life choices. You take on the…

It’s more of a book in the form of a game than a normal game with lots of action. There’s tons of dialogue, great atmospheric…

Postapocalypse, zombies - who doesn’t know it - but The Last of Us is a great movie in terms of storytelling and visuals. The transition…

Have you ever wanted to be a lab rat? In this bloodthirsty and rather gruesome game, you can work alone or with up to three…

Set in a medieval setting. Normally I can’t do much with that. That’s why I find what I find here particularly exciting.

More precisely, the fifth installment in the series: Rise of the Tomb Raider. Unfortunately there is no photo mode here, but there is plenty of…

Legacy of Thieves Collection

Once around the world in “Indiana Jones” or Tomb Raider action-adventure style. Uncharted is a classic of the genre, and Naughty Dog is simply good…

In the grim darkness of the distant future, there is only war. We find ourselves in the extremely dystopian, somewhat retrofuturistic science fantasy universe of…

The plot unfolds in a dystopian London not too far in the future. This is also a great place for street photography.

A classic car racing game. The nice thing about it is that you can destroy Germany's favorite child without hesitation. The photo mode only works…